When you become a first responder you don’t know how you’ll react in a real situation until it happens.  And for the most part, first responders do not get very much training to handle what they’ll experience, if any at all. So that means that the great majority of first responders are not prepared for the…

Hello everyone.  Just a short and sweet podcast to thank everyone for listening for the past two years and hopefully for listening to us over the next year and beyond.

Today’s guest is the Director of Sales and Affiliate Marketing for the Inspired Performance Institute. Mark Aylward is part of a team that is dedicated to helping people heal from post traumatic stress and other OSI’s. We’re going to start with finding out more about Mark and his story and we’re going to end with finding…

About three months ago I had the pleasure of being a guest on The Femininja Project podcast. The host is Cheryl Ilov who was my guest on episode 145 of our podcast. Cheryl is a great host and I thought that I would publish this episode for your listening pleasure. You might find out more…

Derek Davis was a 16 year paramedic who has been affected by post traumatic stress.  Join us to hear about Derek’s resiliency plan and the innovative program he went through at Project Trauma Support.  And, we talk about how his wife of 15 years “pulls the ripcord” to let Derek know that he needs take…

Dr Wood is the founder of the Inspired Performance Institute and is the author of two books about eliminating your trauma from your life entirely! I know so many people who’ve been traumatized in their lives and so many of them go from treatment modality to modality searching for a way to make the pain go away….

Rob Leathen is a career firefighter of 28 years.  In 2019 Rob was diagnosed with severe Post Traumatic Stress and severe depression and has been off work since April of 2019. One of the things that Rob told me in one of our conversations is that he was currently in the process of working on his…

Fire Chief Michael Seth has been open and honest about his mental health challenges because he sees this as a way to help other first responders come forward to ask for, or to seek help. We talk about how the traumatic calls that Michael experienced on the job manifested as post traumatic stress. We also…

4-1/2 years ago this month Ashley Wurth gave up drugs and alcohol altogether and started a new life.  She says:  I swear the world just wasn’t this pretty before. What a great quote! Ashley told me that her bike saved her.  She said that it changed her perspective and gave her the outlook that she needed.  And she…

This episode is all about journeys.  The journey of a mother through her 17 year cancer experience.  The journey of a daughter who was with her every step of the way, and the 25 year long journey of a very special book.  A book that was started by Marilyn Anne Hughes when she was first diagnosed with ovarian…